On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > OR > > > > - keep part of the patch from Hugh, treating negative in RCU mode as > > "need to unlazy". > > No, urgh, that's horrible. > > Not being able to do an RCU lookup of negative dentries would be > really sad. There are some loads where a negative dentry is the > *common* case. Yes, that worried me too. But I can see Al's point, it looks like he has enough on his plate for now. This is not a fresh regression: I vote we make no change for 3.0, I give your minus-1-liner more testing, hopefully with confirmation, and we get the fix into 3.0.1 (if that's what stable is to be called). Or into 3.0 if there's going to be an -rc8, I was assuming not. Hugh
